(That last one is an expression of my feelings about the first two, rather than another horrid name.)

Zsuzsanna is Hungarian. Although, I do think that's going to be a hard one to explain/spell if the child lives in North America.

I know a Zsuzsanna. She goes by Zsu Zsa. She is in her mid 40's and does spend time explaining her name isn't Susan but it seems to have not been too extreme.

Yes, most names with a Zs will be Hungarian (think Zsa Zsa Gabor). I've had a few friends when visiting comment on the "funky name spellings" of Hungarians (such as Jozsef for Joseph, Krisztina for Christina, etc) - but here it's not funky, it's traditional and based on the alphabet!

(That last one is an expression of my feelings about the first two, rather than another horrid name.)

Zsuzsanna is Hungarian. Although, I do think that's going to be a hard one to explain/spell if the child lives in North America.

I know a Zsuzsanna. She goes by Zsu Zsa. She is in her mid 40's and does spend time explaining her name isn't Susan but it seems to have not been too extreme.

Yes, most names with a Zs will be Hungarian (think Zsa Zsa Gabor). I've had a few friends when visiting comment on the "funky name spellings" of Hungarians (such as Jozsef for Joseph, Krisztina for Christina, etc) - but here it's not funky, it's traditional and based on the alphabet!

How is it supposed to be pronounced? I know two. Both pronounce it (more or less) Eee an.

That's the only pronunciation I know, too.

That's how I would pronounce the UK version. Polish or other eastern european versions I've only heard pronounced as Yan (usually spelled Jan).

Yeah, it's the "I" at the start of the name that was throwing me off too, because I would have said Ee-an as well. I would expect if it were pronounced Yan that it would be spelled with a J. But then I remembered a man I met from Romania named Ionut that was pronounced something like Yon-newt, so yeah, long story short, I get it now.

I saw the name Re'Nita the other day. Renita is a perfectly nice name. I just don't understand the compulsion to put in an apostrophe, and a second capital letter. Maybe they indicate something about the pronunciation or meaning that I am not privy to.

Some friends of mine translated our names into their literal (but loose) interpretations. The three most memorable:My best friend: Clumsy Child of GodMe: Defender of Three O'clock in the MorningBoyfriend at the time: Dark Angel of Death

My husband's middle name is Duncan, which means "warrior"; our last name, Forsyth, means "man of peace." I joke with him that he must have a split personality.

I was always quite amused that Anne (could never find just Annie in a names book) means grace. Course most of my youth I took that to mean physical grace, of which I had very little. Still don't have much of that, honestly, though at least I manage to avoid breaking bones or getting stitches. But I still find myself saying "Hey how'd that bruise get there? Oh yeah, that must be from the baby gate."

Course now I realize it probably means other forms of grace, and I'm still not totally sure I have those either.

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Some friends of mine translated our names into their literal (but loose) interpretations. The three most memorable:My best friend: Clumsy Child of GodMe: Defender of Three O'clock in the MorningBoyfriend at the time: Dark Angel of Death

My husband's middle name is Duncan, which means "warrior"; our last name, Forsyth, means "man of peace." I joke with him that he must have a split personality.

I was always quite amused that Anne (could never find just Annie in a names book) means grace. Course most of my youth I took that to mean physical grace, of which I had very little. Still don't have much of that, honestly, though at least I manage to avoid breaking bones or getting stitches. But I still find myself saying "Hey how'd that bruise get there? Oh yeah, that must be from the baby gate."

Course now I realize it probably means other forms of grace, and I'm still not totally sure I have those either.

My middle name, I looked up once. After a long string of "___ form of ___" and "variation of ____" I finally got to the very start of it, "thought to be based on the word ____, meaning 'torture'".

So yeah. Apparently my first and middle name together mean "Noble Torture".

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